You speak the truth. BUT he was just playing by the game that was established before he became president and now exist today.

So while Clinton ran a defict, can you imagine what we're running now?

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The graph shows it, seems to be a steady downslope but nothing crazy.

I read some great analysis on the real budget during Clinton years, may have linked it on ET. The operational (excluding future liabilities) was barely break even. There are a lot of games there, mainly with intergovernmental debt.